The primary two episodes of a French thriller sequence referred to as The Hunt (or Traqués) have been scheduled to premiere on Apple TV on Wednesday, December third, with one episode to observe each Wednesday via December thirty first… however final week, Apple TV pulled the present from their lineup – and now we all know why. Varied shops, together with Selection, are reporting that the present was pulled over plagiarism considerations.
What’s The Hunt about?
Created and directed by Cédric Anger for producer Gaumont, The Hunt has the next logline: Franck and his longtime pals get pleasure from spending their weekends searching collectively, however one Sunday, they arrive throughout one other group of hunters who begin focusing on them with out rationalization. When one among their get together is shot, Franck’s pals strike again, sending an attacker to the bottom. Barely managing to flee, the 4 pals preserve the occasion a secret. Franck tries to return to his life as traditional alongside his spouse, Krystel, however within the subsequent few days, he begins to really feel like he and his pals are being watched, or worse, tracked by hunters who at the moment are hell-bent on revenge. The sequence stars Benoît Magimel, Mélanie Laurent, Damien Bonnard, Manuel Guillot, Cédric Appietto, Angelyna Danabe Mignot, Paul Beaurepaire, Yann Goven, Sarah Pachoud, and Patrick de Vallette.
Isabelle Degeorges, Clémentine Vaudaux, Alexis Barqueiro, and Sidonie Dumas function government producers for Gaumont.
Gaumont has confirmed that they’re investigating the plagiarism allegations and supplied the next assertion: “The published of our sequence The Hunt has been quickly postponed. We’re presently conducting an intensive evaluation to deal with any questions associated to our manufacturing. We take mental property issues very significantly.“
Is it a rip-off?
The allegations have been first surfaced by French media skilled Clement Garin and declare that The Hunt (which has nothing to do with the 2020 movie of the identical title) is a rip-off of the 1973 novel Shoot by Douglas Fairbairn, which acquired a movie adaptation with the identical title in 1976. The movie was directed by Harvey Hart from a screenplay written by Richard Berg, and it starred Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, and Henry Silva.
Right here’s the outline of Fairbairn’s Shoot from Goodreads: Rex is an uber-macho hunter who along with 4 equally testosterone-addled buddies embarks on a searching journey within the Canadian wilderness. However their weekend is reduce brief by a rival band of hunters they encounter within the forest, one among whom inexplicably take a potshot at Rex’s get together and grazes the pinnacle of one among his buddies. One other of Rex’s pals returns hearth, killing the shooter. From there Rex and firm scurry off and head again to civilization. Rex decides to not contact the authorities concerning the killing, betting the rival hunters will react the identical manner. To verify this he appears up the murdered man’s id and tracks down his widow. She reveals that her deceased hubbie’s buddies declare he was killed by a ‘stray bullet.’ This doesn’t solely fulfill Rex, nonetheless, who turns into satisfied that the useless man’s companions are going to come back after him and his pals. Rex makes plans to go again to the scene of the crime the next Saturday, the place he’s optimistic the rival hunters will likely be ready for them. He recruits a small military and a veritable arsenal of firepower as accompaniment. The fateful day arrives. Rex and his mini-army, weapons on the prepared, set out into the now snow lined forest. It seems abandoned. Appearances, nonetheless, may be deceiving, and earlier than the day is finished a lot of weapons–true to Rex’s predictions–will likely be fired. Fairbairn handed away in 1997.
Anger, who was born between the publication of Fairbairn’s novel and the discharge of the movie adaptation, has 25 years of screenwriting credit to his title and has additionally directed the movies The Killer (2007), The Counsel, Subsequent Time I’ll Purpose for the Coronary heart, and Paris Pigalle.
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